Colony Founded

Famous quotes containing the words colony and/or founded:

““Tall tales” were told of the sociability of the Texans, one even going so far as to picture a member of the Austin colony forcing a stranger at the point of a gun to visit him.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“All government—indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act—is founded on compromise and barter.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)